"let's have a separate category for Best Rap, so that actual songs can get their due."
lol. Indeed! Of course, that leads to maybe splitting up the Best Song into even more categories and getting an Oscar Grammy thing going on. I guess that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, tho. You could have genre Best Songs and then one overall Best Song. hmm. Perhaps I'm taking this too seriously. Still, I'm -not- impressed with the winning tune this year.
Anyway, I also think the Gibbs' are on to something when they suggest expanding the number of nominees in the visual effects category.
As for Crash, huh. I mean, I didn't hate the film, but although I thought the racial issues were realistic and frightening (for their subtlety as well as overtness), I also felt like much of the plot was too contrived with too many criss-crossing plot lines. Like how the cop winds up saving the woman he intimidated and molested in front of her husband. And so on. Because of this deus ex machina vibe, I had a tough time being swept away by it or impressed with it as a story rather than a scripted film. But I guess I'm definitely in the minority here. (shrug)